How would you handle?

[Inspired by Reggio]

I had a client once ... little girl two years old came into program one day and all day long she kept going on about her 'bird was hurting' and I was like 'oh I didn't know you had a bird, that is so sad ~ is mommy going to take it to the vet' and so forth she just kept getting frustrated and repeating her bird was hurting ~ so at pick up time I say to the mom 'I did not know you had a bird ~ what happened to it cause X was going on all day long about how her bird got hurt' .... turned out bird is what they called her vagina and well the kid was toilet trained I did not LOOK at her vagina on a regular basis so had no clue ~ poor thing had a yeast infection on the weekend and mom forgot to tell me

I agree ~ call them by their commonly used terms ... even though the correct term is vulva as the vagina is the actual 'canal' at least it is better than BIRD or WOOHOO or whatever cause it is a part of the vagina!